We’ll
start with Stupid Chord Tricks, clever little mutations and variations
that pour easily out of the guitar. People have stumbled onto them,
they sound good and, in any case, you should know about them. They
constitute the slang of the guitar.

Passing
Chords come next. These are the “slash” chords that feature unexpected
bass notes that serve to tie together the chords in a sequence. In Bass
Runs, the basslines are physically extracted from the chords and played
as single notes in Walkups and Walkdowns.

Finally,
we get into playing Single Note Lines. We’ll use familiar melodies,
talk about different right- and left-hand techniques and do a little
blues improv using what are called Pentatonic Scales. Then we’ll move
into the realm of reading Standard Music Notation (the dots and the
flags and the beams) with as little pain as possible.